Harvey Cox Quotes
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
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I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
